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In trying to take references to October 7 out of the Israeli singer's now-famous song "Hurricane," the competition both accidentally improved it and made her a cause célèbre.

A week of cascading humiliations

How—and what—can we celebrate in the wake of Oct. 7?

Bread or Dreams? by Rabbi Elie Mischel

As we celebrate the miracle of Israel amidst an existential war for survival, we must keep our dreams front and center.

The Israeli defense minister’s disgraceful display was—in the words of the late baseball great Yogi Berra—“like déjà vu all over again.”

“What Israel has done is take the effort to minimize civilian casualties as no other army has done,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israel Summit organized by the Proclaiming Justice to the Nations organization was relocated due to threats by Hamas supporters but has been successfully rescheduled.

“The president’s threat to veto this legislation and Schumer’s refusal to bring it to a vote in the Senate are acts of betrayal to our closest ally in the region,” said Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

It’s almost unimaginable to see recent Biden Administration moves going from bad to worse, so much so that these defer any prospect for any real peace or an end to the war against Hamas (and Iran and its proxies).

God’s Conscious Concern for the Land by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki

God’s promises of reward or punishment are not simply rules that are then unconsciously activated by our actions. God is always watching, always concerned, always involved.

March 9 2019. I do not think this paper ever was posted on this blog. This is the version that was submitted to Re-Visioning Tradition in 2008, and was eventually published in that series, with som…

A decade ago, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously declared that Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four…

Plus: The wishcasting of Trump's GOP punching bags.

U.S. calls for Arab peacekeeping force; Arab League calls for UN peacekeeping force; Government radical resigns from government, cites radicalism

From Black Lives Matter, to climate change, to the war in Gaza, the demand to hire more identity studies faculty and consultants is a constant

The UN drops Hamas’s fake numbers; will Biden change his policy?

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The Reagan-Begin relationship has lessons for American Jews, too.

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Israel will soon celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence. Around the same time, Palestinians will stage their annual Nakba Day, the official commemoration held every year on May 15